Many people routinely trade cars after only 3 years or so (and even sooner).
If the trade for a high mileage model falls into that routine, it is a
positive, particularly if they can get the old gas guzzler off the road.
Having it sent to the used market does not help much but the effect of
getting an earth friendly vehicle at a time that you would buy another gas
guzzler is a step in the right direction.
Doing it just to show your neighbors that you care is pretty pathetic.
Joe C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <Billb@bnj.com>
To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>
Cc: "Steven Preiss" <spreiss@verizon.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] mileage plus
> Actually, that's exactly the opposite of what I mean. if you consider
> the total energy costs of producing a new car, there isn't a
> sufficient resource saving for that added 10 MPG to justify a new one.
> If you want to contribute then keep your car much longer, drive less,
> carpool, maintain your car well, keep your tires properly inflated to
> the high side. It's trivial, but it's actually positive. Trading your
> Hyundai for a Prius is a fashion statement. Nothing more.
>
> Not that I'm criticizing fashion statements. I drive a Ferrari. But
> that doesn't mean I can't do math.
>
> The media loves this story--it appeals to their smug and monumentally
> uninformed self-righteousness and it's good copy. I loved all the
> NASCAR stories about fuel being a big deal for the teams. The stories
> were ALL written manipulatively, to make it seem like race fuel was
> the issue. Only if you read past the second paragraph (which any
> weasel mind-manipulator like me knows 90 percent of the readers won't
> do) do you discover that they were talking about fuel for the
> airplanes that they transport the teams with.
>
> It's just cynical marketing for event promoters like Nascar to prattle
> about fuel considerations. Amid 50,000 cars in the parking lot at a
> typical race, each carrying 1.3 people. Teams flying in with a fleet
> of Citations or the three Roush 727's, fifty cars driving 500 miles is
> a fart in a hurricane.
>
> You've got to admire the blatant duplicity. This morning on Good
> Morning they had extensive coverage of the goofballs climbing New York
> skyscrapers, with all the hosts looking very concerned about copycats
> and how illegal it all was. Then they announced they were going to
> have an exclusive interview with the french guy who's climbing...wait
> for it...to protest global warming.
>
> The first copycat weenie had to dream something up on the spot--all he
> could come up with was "to make people aware of the dangers of
> malaria". I nearly blew coffee out my nose.
>
> What a wonderful world.
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